BenSpark Family Adventures

  Photo-A-Day 2.0 #00755 Around Christmas there were some Mandalorian sets of Pez dispensers at Target. I picked them up to add to my collection of the different Pez dispensers that I have. I love how the Grogu (Baby Yoda) one is such a tiny one compared to Mando in his shiny Beskar armor.

  Photo-A-Day 2.0 #00754 Andy has been taking to building a lot of LEGO lately. He’s been into the LEGO Super Mario sets and even bought a few more with some Christmas money. He picked out a couple more LEGO Mario sets and also some Brick Headz that look like pandas. Today he build this skate park set. It is a really cute set with four minifigs including one in a wheelchair. We built the set together. He built the skate park while I built the car. It was nice that the set had two separate instruction books so that we could be building at the same time. It was nice to do that with him.

  Photo-A-Day 2.0 #00753 I took tonight off of work so that I could complete Phase training at America’s Best Defense. This was a three hour training night that went over the entire under-belt curriculum. It is open for those who are brown belt or higher. This training is to get students ready for Boot Camp that prepares them for the black belt test. I’m still over a year away from being able to test for my black belt but I am so excited about earning that rank. I have so much more to learn and do before that day but I feel better about it after going through this training. There were so many things that we did during the night. I made sure that I never looked at my watch because I wanted to make sure that I got that feeling of being there for 3 hours and it have been 15 minutes. I do have to say that I help up pretty well through the night. My training partner was a second degree black belt and he helped me so much through the night. He was encouraging, challenging and very gracio...

  Photo-A-Day 2.0 #00752 While we were at Karate this afternoon Andy read from one of his kids graphic novels. This one is all about Black Canary. He was really excited to read it and he’s been doing a great job of reading while Eva is training. We don’t allow Andy or Eva to bring in electronics to the dojo. Andy got a bunch of great DC Kids comics recently and he’s been pouring through all of them. He’s now on The Black Canary. Even Eva wants to read it. There is another book on the way that is a STEM themed book that is being curated by Mayim Bialik from The Big Bang Theory. It is called Flash Facts where the different DC characters talk about STEM topics. We’ll be reviewing that soon.

  Photo-A-Day 2.0 #00751 I ordered myself some new jeans from Amazon. This will probably be the way I will buy jeans from now on because they always have my specific size. That size is now lower. I had been running around with larger and longer pants. I think the waist size is easy enough to find but it is the length that always causes and issue. At least it was always tough to find the right length in the store. But with Amazon I can place a quick order and get those new jeans in a day or two. We were goofing around an Allison was commenting on how my jeans were so much less baggy. I was doing a silly dance to make the kids giggle and then took this silly selfie. That mirror comes in handy.

  Photo-A-Day 2.0 #00750 With Christmas over we cleaned up the hallway upstairs and moved the hope chest into my office. About a ear ago we got a vanity from one of Allison’s friends who was moving. It had been sitting in the garage for a while. We did not realize that there was a missing piece of wood that connected the top of the vanity to the bottom. My dad came back home and he cut a strip of wood for us so that we could assemble the vanity. With that piece of wood we were able to put the vanity together and set up up n the hallway. Allison also ordered a new laundry basket that would fit between the vanity and our bedroom. The laundry baskets did not fit well in that space and this looks much nicer.

  Photo-A-Day 2.0 #00749 Andy is always looking to bake something. Today he wanted to make cake balls but that becomes a bit of a project that neither myself or Allison were interested in taking on. We then decided that Andy would bake a red velvet cake. However, I forgot to grease the pan and so the kids made cake balls after all.